Dynamical cosmological constant from a very recent phase transition

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(00)01389-7MaRDI QIDQ1594699zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. McDonald

Publication date 6 February 2001

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0007117

zbMATH Keywords

scalar field\(\phi^4\) potentialtime-dependent mass term

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Observation indicates that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating and favours a dynamical cosmological constant, Lambda(t). We consider the possibility that this is due to a scalar field which has undergone a very recent phase transition. We study a simple class of model, corresponding to a phi^4 potential with a time-dependent mass squared term. For the models considered the phase transition occurs at a red shift z leq 1.2. The evolution of the equation of state omega_{phi} and energy density ho_{phi} with time is distinct from existing dynamical Lambda models based on slowly rolling fields, with omega_{phi} and ho_{phi} rapidly changing in a characteristic way following the transition. The phi energy density is composed of a time-dependent vacuum energy and coherently oscillating condensate component with a negative pressure. The condensate component will collapse to form non-topological soliton lumps, 'phi-axitons', which smoothly populate the Universe.

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